Anybody around my age?
 

hello there!
anybody here in years 10-11? GCSE years.
do let me know <3

would like to discuss things :)
anybody else swamped by coursework homework etc etc?
im finding it a little much if im honest.
and actually.. i should be doing my homework.. not posting on here.
WOOPS!
:P

thats ok i wont tell
what u wanna talk about again??
im not near ur age but i might as well be
i act like im 12
but look like im 20

i was just wondering if im the only person hinding it a little much, all this GCSE work :)
so how old are you then? :S
ahaa xD

im 19
i dont know what those r though.. sorry.. what are GCSE?

I also initially misunderstood them as saying they are 10 to 11 years old. Which caused me to be quite confused when another said they were in uni and recalled doing the same level homework a few years ago. GCSE is a high school qualification.

tell me about it.. i do know that they did change middle school to where they are doing a much higher level of work now.. like my sister was doing things in the 7th grade that i was still learning in the 10th!! weird huh?
so you never know.

by years 10-11 i ment school year not ages :)
and sorry, its probably just my English system, i dont know what its like in the states?

Sun: i know, itll be okay :) im just needlessly complaining i spose :P just wish they could be over and done with! thanks though :D

That is quite impressive. Did that make you feel upset at doing the same level work as her, or more proud of her for doing the same level as yourself?
It is also the system they use in Aotearoa, New Zealand as well. So in fairness, I should have realized. In my defense they did change the system in several ways while I was at school. One of the trivial changes was how they refer to school years. It went from J1 -2, S1- 4 and F1 -7 to years 1- 13.

wow it must be real diff. in new zealand cause i didnt understand any of those numbers and letters!! wow. i never actually realized how different everything was until now.
thats so cool though.
i know though for real i think they are trying to make our siblings super siblings cause right now my sister is totally smarter than me and she's 15. not cool that she surpassed me when i was still in school

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oh wow chica i thought that when u said that that it meant u were younger!!

sorry for the misunderstanding chick!

yeah thats what i thought

does ur school make it mandatory for u guys to take the Asvab?
ours did and i didnt think it was fair so i skipped it

wow the last two years of state school your like, 16 & 17, but i was 18 cause of late birthday

1st grade ur 6
2nd-7
3rd-8
4th-9
5th-10
6th-11
7th-12
8th-13
and by high school your already 14
10th-15
11th-16
12th-17 & 18

boom u graduate n off to college
lol

I hate how the UK took on the American way of listing school years, I feel its another bit of our Britishness gone :( I'm suprised that the 6th form is still called that, as that of course is a hold over from when secondary education started at 11 - 1st year, and worked up to 15 - 5th year. I was totally confused when 1st years suddenly because year 7s!

I feel so old even though I know there are a bunch of people my age here. XD I've been out of school for almost 8 years.

I think me not being in school just makes me feel like I am older. I've been working since high school and went to only a few years of uni. That just makes me sound old. XD

i took Biology, Chemistry, physics, business studies, portuguese, design tech., maths, english lang, english literature, ICT, and P.E. :)

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and im currently applying to colleges :)

I think Menewsha has a good mix of younger/older people. I'm 28, myself.

jellysundae: Okay, then maybe you can explain something to me. I've been re-listening to a Diana Wynne Jones novel, Witch Week, in which the main characters are all school children, in "class 6B." Their age is never given, but we're told that they're in the "lower school" (it's a government-supported boarding school; I can never remember if that means public or private in UK terms :sweat:) and the so-called "seniors" who have boyfriends and girlfriends with whom they fool around in the shrubbery are old enough to be barely growing mustaches. How old are the kids in class 6B?

(That feels like one of those "If Jill is five inches shorter than Tom, and Tom is two inches taller than Bill, what kind of ice cream does Fred like?" questions... :blush: )

contrapunctus: When was this book written? In the UK "public school" means private school, it's good and confusing :lol: I don't know why it's like that, just always has been for hundreds of years. The terms used in that book are old though.
I'd say 6B would be 6th form which is kids doing their A levels once they've finished normal secondary education, so ones from 15 upwards depending on when their birthday is.

UK education starts earlier than it does in the US, I started school at 5 (my birthday's in July so I was one of the youngest in my year) but secondary education ends at 15-16, it's up to the child if they stay on for another two years to do A levels.
Which are only called A levels (advanced level) because the exams you did at 15/16 were called O levels (ordinary level).
I could confuse you now by saying there used to be 2 different difficulties of exams; O levels, the harder ones, which were also called GCEs (General Certificate of Education) and CSEs (Certificate of Secondary Education) which were easier. My year at school was the last year to ever do both, after that schools did an amalgamated version which is what people do today GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education). A levels are still A levels though.

My "form" classes at secondary school were numbered in the way they are in that book. 1F, 2F and 3F for the first three years because we stayed with the same teacher, Mrs. Fleet, for registration for those years. Moved schools after that and the system expanded slightly, still the number to denote your year, but there were two letters that followed, maybe because there were too many teachers who's names began with the same letter in the new school, so they used both initials xD

I'm just suprised that this book of yours only says "6". That's a bit unclear as the 6th form has two years. They're normal called upper and lower sixth, that's probably what the lower and senior bit is about though. Public schools do like to develop their own quirky ways of doing things though, and fictional public schools even more so! I read some kids books when I was younger that were set in girl's boarding schools, and one of those had an upper and lower fourth year which confused me entirely and still does to this day :lol: